Offit Kurman

Commercial Litigation

Principal

Ryan Boland is a principal attorney who represents companies and individuals in the areas of complex commercial litigation, corporate litigation, real estate litigation and zoning law. He has extensive experience in litigation involving unfair competition and employment litigation (including prosecuting and defending restrictive covenants).

Ryan represents companies in diverse industries, including real estate, medical, manufacturing and legal. He also serves as outside general counsel to owner-managed businesses, including helping companies grow from one-person start-ups to having 100+ employees and eight figures per year in revenue.

Additionally, Ryan represents real estate developers with their real estate and corporate needs. He also handles intellectual property law cases, including preparing, filing and prosecuting federal trademark applications and arbitrating Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) disputes.

Ryan has volunteered through Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA), where he assisted low-income individuals with preparing income tax returns.

Ryan has practiced law for over fifteen years, four of which were spent as an associate with a large national law firm practicing commercial litigation, banking law, class actions and professional liability. He also spent five years practicing at a Philadelphia commercial litigation and boutique law firm.

While pursuing his J.D. from The Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson School of Law, Ryan served as a law clerk to the Honorable Kevin A. Hess in the Cumberland County Court of Common Pleas. After graduating, he was a law clerk to the Honorable Arnold L. New in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas.

Philadelphia Bar Association, Investigative Division of Commission on Judicial Selection and Retention

IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA), Volunteer

Penn State Dickinson Law (J.D.)

Franklin & Marshall College (B.A.)